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Stock market on a roll despite slowing economic growth, lingering unemployment[Also known as reality! Roll … yes, indeed … everyone’s to get rolled! ] (Washington Post) Dow is up more than 10 percent for 2011, to its highest point in nearly three years. [ Same bubble scenario preceeding last crash (including currency manipulation); yet, far worse this time owing to insurmountable debt and defacto bankruptcy of the nation.

Fed Chairman Bernanke does reality TV (WP) [ Except the ‘NO-RECESSION HELICOPTER BEN B.S. BERNANKE’ show is scripted unreality … even with his reduction in estimate for ‘economic growth’, the frauds on wall street still rallied. Bernanke prepares to make history (Washington Post) [ He already has! $6 gas acomin’, $1,508+ gold, $46+ silver, other commodities at record levels, hyperinflation as predicted well on the way from over-printing of fiat paper currency by fed as predicted, etc., Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar 'Despite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years, equity valuations are the 2nd largest bubble in U.S. history... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued according to this valuation metric. The only time the markets have been more overvalued was a few brief months in 1929 and the tech bubble

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009.

· The extended (and then further extended) unemployment benefits have kept an artificially higher demand for consumer consumption. As a result, the US government has artificially subsidized corporate profits.

· The billions saved through “free loading” by homeowners who have defaulted on their mortgages yet maintained their residence, thus living without a mortgage payment.

· The artificially suppressed interest rates...

Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come!

ATTENTION: REPORTERS – HIP BOOTS MANDATORY, WADERS RECOMMENDED SINCE YOU’LL BE AT LEAST KNEE-DEEP IN ‘NO-RECESSION HELICOPTER BEN B.S. BERNAKE’ B*** S***! ] On Wednesday, he will be the first Fed chairman to take on-the-record questioning from the media.

24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline’ ] States face shortfall for retirees]

Why do Americans still dislike atheists? (Washington Post) [ And not just americans … Why? First and foremost because there is a God. Second, it is intellectually dishonest to be an atheist. Specifically, there is absolutely no evidence to dispute the existence of God. While one might similarly argue that there is no evidence to suggest there is a God (which I would dispute), which for most is a fair statement, the same would yield at best, if intellectually honest, the position of ‘agnostic’. I can totally understand and even empathize with the view of the agnostic. After all, at this point, there seems to be ‘no rhyme nor reason’ at all. But, think binary, positives / negatives. Just too many negatives. Think ‘capital punishment’. No, the world’s not going to end in 2012 as some fear. Rather, think slow burn; decades at best; then ‘poof’. In the scheme of things, this world’s just not that important (apes, notochordates, and initially single celled organisms). Kind of akin to what I previously wrote: (God doesn’t care that you wrestle a girl who wants to wrestle!) Boy wrestler forfeits match to female opponent... [ What a homo! Wow! I feel sorry for those guys she actually beat (20 of them – her record was 20 and 13) … they’ll probably never get over it … nor should they … I have to rethink my regard for Iowa, Iowa state wrestling now presuming such stalwart championship teams to be the products of out-of-state imports … as for the guy who forfeited, he could have easily and gently taken her down (you can easily do that with a lesser opponent), got her in a double grapevine and grind her in a certain way into the mat, and when she was in the throws of convulsive orgasm, she’d unwittingly arch her back, thereby pressing her own shoulder blades to the mat, thereby pinning herself, thus enabling the homo to say in a manner of speaking that he was making heterosexual love not war with her ……… how pathetic and preposterous this was … and, let me remind the homo that God doesn’t care that you wrestle a girl who wants to wrestle! ]]

Reporters on parade (Washington Post) The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is a display of excess. [ Ah! Another rare instance of my agreement with Mr. Milbank; except, I would have emphasized the excess of everything but future impacting news, out in plain view for everyone to see, yet never quite making the headlines such potentially future altering news deserved. Indeed, who likes to hear such dire, dreary, depressing news when ‘uplifting’, mind-numbing powder puffs can fill the pages…and did … to everyone’s detriment. Attorney General Holder defends his tenure (Washington Post) [ Defending the indefensible! Yes … there is no defending this ag … He should step down, forced to resign … Obama faces fundraising test in California (Washington Post) [ Test? You mean intelligence test for those Californians? A cliché, aphorism is apposite: ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me’. Now frauds on wall street got value for their bribes; viz., no prosecution of their continuing nation-destroying frauds, yet cleaning up the frauds with prosecutions was the presumption upon which their support was predicated , at least in part. Certainly Hollywood spoke with their academy award for ‘Inside Job’ . Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ), the commentator / experts recommend getting rid of the corrupt eric holder ( what do holder and wobama have in common … wall street money? … a proclivity for jive-talking / b* s* ?...all/some of the above … or is it something else ... . UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown. ]

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U.S. troops’ deadliest month in Iraq (Washington Post) With 11 deaths, April was the worst for U.S. forces since combat missions officially ended last year, according to military and independent record keepers. [Riiiiight! … That ‘progress thing’ they keep reminding us of … which of course is progress in progressive increasing pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america’s insurmountable debt. Key Afghan aid programs delayed (Washington Post) [ Strategy? Critical time? Seems we’ve heard that song before. And, yet another nation and innocent lives destroyed for no good reason … and, pervasively corrupt and defacto bankrupt america … winning hearts and minds …NOT! … Petraeus to helm more-militarized CIA (Washington Post) [ I personally unequivocally believe there has already been a defacto coup d’etat in america. Drudgereport: Pentagon Warns Obama Against Deeper Defense Cuts ... (And where is it going to come from ... we've already had in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, war crimes nation america a defacto coup d'etat) ... Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’ US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” I also personally believe there has been a defacto coup d’etat which has manifested in various substantial, blatant, brazened frauds, ie., wall street, missing 360 tons of $100 bills in Iraq, war profiteering, etc., without any fear of prosecution, and of course concomitant decline for u.s. as the treasury is looted. But I also believe its scope is beyond just the CIA with many complicit within the corrupted 3 branches of u.s. government (fed judges, us attorneys, illegal system, etc.) plus the military and private big money, ie., Goldman Sachs / wall street men, etc… http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm

Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government .. CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 has told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he has been working as a U.S. government asset for years. . Rendition: Where the War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs Henningsen | ... I’ve experienced the corrupt inter-relationship of the government (all 3 corrupt branches) and the illegal drug trade / obstruction of justice / bribery first hand, particularly the courts / u.s. attorneys offices (ie., alito – now u.s. supreme court justice – quid pro quo for his complicity / cover-up), feds

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The outdated ‘Trump Rule’ (Washington Post) COLUMN | The would-be GOP presidential contender has long shown a penchant for sexism. Trump calls leaders ‘stupid’ at Vegas casino [ Again, the pot calls the kettle black … if it was only just sexism that defined deeply flawed, mental case, mobster / fraudster trump, … yet there’s just enough truth and an open bar to keep their attention … Memo to Donald Trump: You're fired Los Angeles Times - ‎What The Donald 'accomplished' is to make a fool of himself and diminish President Obama's dignity. It's time for the loud-mouthed man with the big bankroll and bad haircut to take his sideshow to the trash heap.’… What Mr. Banks fails to realize is that wobama has no dignity and appropriate criticism, as I’ve said before, is to him like ‘water off a duck’s back’ and you can not shame the stereotypical wobama. TRUMP TO GIBBS: YOU'RE 'A LOSER' [‘Another trumped-up case of the pot calling the kettle black’]... TRUMP: Obama Not Worthy of Ivy Leagues... [ Talk about the pot calling the kettle black … trump’s b.s., low grade (penn) ivy league (courtesy of papa mobster trump who ‘twisted his arm to go’ so people would take him ‘seriously’ – papa mobster trump would pound the undistinguished academically / athletically, Donald with the mantra, ‘you’re a killer, you’re a king’ in film noir melodramatic fashion which proved too much for the more balanced and ‘chosen / favored’ elder brother trump who committed suicide. The old man also required trump to go to prep / military / boarding school where according to a classmate, Ted Levine, trump used to wet / pee in his bed. ) vegetable garden in the same manner as dumbya bush … mobster trump and people like trump are part of the problem (total b*** s***, fraud, etc., as in his home turf, mob-infested sinkholes, jersey / new york), not the solution. Indeed, trump is an interesting mental case in that he evolved from narcissist (those inflated grandiose moods coupled with feelings of inferiority – he loved to obsessively read those hitler speeches for inspiration and to pump himself up according to Ivana Trump) to severe case of antisocial personality disorder [ predatory disregard for and violation of the rights of others – hence, those sophomoric soundbite solutions to complex problems as, ie., taking oil fields(Libya), 25% tariff on Chinese (american goods made in China), drug money laundering in his casinos, bribery, etc. http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]

In a rational nation that wasn’t in decline as pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america, trump and sister Maryanne would both be in prison.

The president, lost in thought (WP) [ How ‘bout just lost! Wobama … a common liar. Drudgereport: TELEPROMPTER INVENTOR DIES... (Wobama ‘mourns … day of silence declared’)

‘Microsoft confirmed Thursday its Windows cash machine is under threat. So what else is new? Uncertainty about the PC market's growth prospects, and what that means for Windows in particular, arguably has been baked into Microsoft's ...’

Microsoft wrestles slack PC sales and wilting stock Reuters [ Microsoft is a dinosaur that should be out of business! My latest / current but typical problems with Microsoft / windows-based pc’s (dell) confirms this! ]

Gallup Poll Shows that More Americans Believe the U.S. is in a Depression than is Growing … Are They Right? [ Yes! ]Consumer confidence is, well … in somewhat of a depression.

Investors Seek Shelter: Dave's Daily ‘Another day and another light volume rally in stocks. Investors continued to hedge this action by buying precious metals. Ludicrous statements by government officials regarding inflation and the dollar are starting to wear thin even among Permabulls. The WSJ headlined this topic Friday stating government officials are "unfazed by dollar slide". But, they reached fuzzy conclusions about what to do about it. As long as the government doesn't seem to care, commodities will rise, especially precious metals. It's the elephant in the room no one really wants to confront. One way to end Bucky's slide is to stop printing so much money. The Bernank hasn't figured this out since his previous academic studies didn't yield results like we're experiencing now. In the Great Depression, from which he gained his theories and policies, it was illegal to own gold and currency trading hardly existed. But the Fed Chairman hasn't figured this out yet so he continues to keep the presses running at full speed as we saw today with more POMO ($6.6 billion) actions to lube the Primary Dealers. Earnings continue to roll-in mostly mixed. The DJIA continues to lead the way as high priced heavyweights (BA, CAT, CVX and etc) continue to lead the price-weighted index higher. Losers included Microsoft(MSFT _) and Research in Motion(RIMM _). The bottom line is that it's the end of the month and window-dressing remains at the forefront…’

Why History Says You Should 'Sell in May' Sterman ‘The most active traders, which usually man Wall Street's trading desks, can alter market sentiment by either their presence or absence. As the weather warms, these traders take ever longer lunch breaks, which morphs into "Friday-free weekends," culminating in their absence for decent chunk of the month of August. When these traders leave their desks, it's a sign for the rest of us to cool off as well, in case thin trading volume causes one of our holdings to suddenly spike or plunge. Hence, the old-adage: "Sell in May and then go away." (Until the fall...)

Is it a wise move? Let's look. Well, we know April surely gives the impressions of a solid market rally. The S&P 500 (SPY) rose, 4%, 4% and 10% respectively in each of the past three years and is up another 2.2% this month. That rally has recently extended into May, as the S&P 500 has rallied an average of 3% in the past three years. But by the end of May, the party seems to end.

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The market has fallen in six of the past 10 Junes of the past decade, three times the rate at which the various positive months have risen. Was there a July bounce-back? Well, the five Julys of the last decade were split, but the average loss was greater than the average gain.

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The rest of the summer doesn't hold much promise, either. An analysis by Standard & Poor's shows that in the past 60 years, the market has fallen by 0.04% on average in August. It's even worse in September, with that figure dropping to 0.78%. In fact, September is the only month to produce negative average results through the past 80 years, according to Ibbotson & Associates. Lastly, here's a sobering stat: according to S&P, since 1950, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has produced an average gain of 7.4% from November through April and 0.4% from May through October. (Yet as I noted above, May has looked a bit stronger during the past three years.)

If you believe in the notion of "sell in May and go away," then there are certain sectors you should be concerned about that are especially vulnerable to the summer doldrums. For example, tech stocks tend to lag in summer months, due to the capital spending cycle. Major orders are placed at the beginning of the year and then purchasing managers are told to slow it down as the year progresses, in part because it's hard to round up key materials during the summer to complete major installations when so many are planning their summer vacations. By year's end, tech spending rebounds as purchasing managers tend to spend allocated-but-unused funds, in what's know as a budget flush.

Natural gas stocks tend to weaken in the summer, unless it is an especially active season for hurricanes or a large heat wave causes a spike in demand. In their absence, heavy gas production, coupled with seasonal ebb in demand, has tended to max-out gas storage facilities. And when that happens, gas prices hit new lows and producers are forced to curtail production.

Lastly, commodities such as precious and industrial metals tend to slump as major purchasers compete their full-year purchasing needs in the spring. Indeed, China is said to be sitting on more-than-ample supplies of copper, silver and other surging commodities, right at a time when the Chinese government is trying to cool its economy. A drop in demand would pull the rug out from some of the highest-flying commodities. Watch the commodity sector, especially as it is priced to perfection and highly vulnerable to any slowdown in demand…’

S&P's US Downgrade and the Death of American Exceptionalism Harding ‘america, formerly the world’s greatest country, whose financial strength and currency were supreme for the past 100 years, has been put on notice by Standard & Poor’s that it is … second rate status. It was disconcerting to read the ho-hum reactions of economists to S&P’s shift to a negative outlook for US sovereign debt. As one who sees darker implications of a downgrade in Treasuries, it gave me pause to wonder if I am overreacting to the event. Perhaps they are correct in that it will probably not happen, and that if it does, it’s no big deal because the dollar is still the world’s reserve currency. Japan (real fine…disaster) and Great Britain (real fine…disaster) did it and they are fine. And where else would investors go?

My conclusion is that the other 99 guys are out of step. My fellow analysts are mired so deep in the trees that they overlook the forest of reasons why we got into this mess in the first place. The problem with economic analysis and analysts is that there is a tendency of disassembly. By breaking down the problem into its parts one can miss how they all connect. Perhaps if they stepped back and considered where this country is heading they would be less sanguine.

After all, we are not looking at a single event but a series of political decisions made over the past 15 years or so that have created today’s budget crisis. And stepping back even farther, we are experiencing fundamental changes in American culture. The well-worn cliché of the large ocean tanker taking miles to change course is an accurate depiction of our situation. There is so much built-in momentum based on entitlements and defense spending it is unlikely that a crisis can be avoided.

Our economic and policy experts need to focus on this long-term problem rather than just its short-term effects. Unless we deal with the fundamental problems, today’s jury-rigged fixes will not stop our continued downward spiral.

The long-term problem is that American culture has changed and we are losing what has been known as American “exceptionalism” as described by de Toqueville in Democracy in America:

Tocqueville tried to understand why America was so different from Europe in the last throes of aristocracy. America, in contrast to the aristocratic ethic, was a society where hard work and money-making was the dominant ethic, where the common man enjoyed a level of dignity which was unprecedented, where commoners never deferred to elites, and where what he described as crass individualism and market capitalism had taken root to an extraordinary degree.

These values, behaviors, and ideas made America great.

But, things have changed. Today it is acceptable to rely on government to solve our problems instead of taking responsibility for solving them ourselves. We borrow more, spend more, save less, and rely on government to bail us out in old age. We want government to “take care of us” when it comes to medical care. We have become a culture of entitlement. And our rhetoric is more about victimhood and entitlement than initiative and self-reliance. Unlike our grandparents, we have no shame from accepting handouts.

We now accept Social Security and Medicare as normal. Many want Obamacare and are willing to give up some sovereignty and self-reliance to get it. Our younger generations believe they have a right to higher education and that they (or their parents) should not have to pay for it. Government always has a solution for you.

This is a massive cultural shift and it represents a struggle between two opposing forces: our exceptionalism versus the entitlement culture. Both operate in our society side-by-side, but the trend clearly favors the culture of entitlement.

Our exceptionalism has declined inversely to the rise of the welfare state. It started with the Progressive movement in the early 20th Century and the rise of a powerful federal government. The greatest change came during the Franklin Roosevelt years when government was seen to be a solution rather than the problem that our Founders witnessed. The New Deal changed the social landscape because its many programs pervaded almost every aspect of society. Many of these programs survive today.

The significance of the Progressive movement is that the now common belief that government “works” has become fixed in the popular psyche. That is far from de Toqueville’s image of self-reliant individualistic Americans. The belief that we can rely on government to solve problems means that we don’t have to solve them ourselves. It means subordinating our individualism to the technocrat class.

What are the consequences of this cultural shift? Higher taxes and a less dynamic economy. Ultimately it means the disintegration of our economy. Let me explain why.

We are becoming “European” in the sense that most of our fellow Americans accept the idea that the welfare state has primacy over the individual in pursuing social goals. As a result we are becoming less dynamic as a society. We are becoming more complacent, culturally acceding to the mediocrity of security at the expense of personal freedom. It means that taxpayers are willing to accept higher taxes to pay for the Nanny State.

The question is: which taxpayers?

It is an axiom of politics that the recipient class will vote to preserve their benefits. If they become the majority you will never get rid of their benefits. The recipient class is already in the majority. The 77 million long-lived Baby Boomers will be the dominant economic force for the next 40 years. And they vote.

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Boomers will retire and apply for their Social Security and Medicare benefits. That is, they will cease being producers and become recipients. They will draw on those benefits for many, many years. It’s pretty obvious they won’t pay for it.

It doesn’t take a statistician to see that our declining birthrate means there will be fewer producers to support a growing class of recipient. The Social Security Administration estimates that by 2035 only 2.1 workers will support one recipient (down from about 5.1 workers in 1960 to about 3.0 today). Therein lies the problem: our system of benefits is unworkable. When the working taxpayers realize how much they must pay in taxes to support an unworkable system, change will come, just not soon enough to satisfy S&P.

Add to that the following statistic:

A record 18.3% of the nation’s total personal income was a payment from the government for Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, unemployment benefits, and other programs in 2010. Wages accounted for the lowest share of income -- 51.0% -- since the government began keeping track in 1929.

You may believe that the cultural values de Tocqueville identified haven’t diminished in the US, but they have. Almost every index measuring startups and job creation has declined. Here is some longitudinal data from the Census Department showing this trend:

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It would be foolish of me to ignore the unparalleled entrepreneurial infrastructure we Americans have. It is still strong and serves us well. This infrastructure includes a vast economic system that provides capital and support for entrepreneurs and rewards success well. It is a strong social force that is the exact opposite of the cultural attitudes toward entitlement that I discussed above. We still believe in the ability to make it big.

But that is changing. The decline in new business formation is still a telling statistic. Since most (55%) new business formations have 1 to 4 employees (if 1 to 10, then 76% in 2009), it demonstrates a shift in popular attitudes about starting your own business.

Good things don’t last forever when their cultural and moral foundations are being destroyed.

I don’t believe we will have budget reform that will be sufficient to turn supertanker America around. We will have budget reform but it won’t put a significant dent in our social welfare programs, at least in time to avoid S&P’s threatened downgrade of US Treasuries. I would hope that Republicans and Democrats can come together to deal with the underlying substantive issues. Maybe the Republicans will be able to force through some major changes in Social Security, Medicare, and (eliminate) Obamacare. If they win the Presidency in 2012 and are able to take Congress as well, it could be a political sea change.

Don’t misunderstand what I am saying: I strongly support any attempts at reform, but I don’t believe in political miracles. When polls of Tea Partiers show they don’t want their retirement benefits touched, their new brand of conservatism illustrates the breadth of our cultural change and the new political reality.

Ask yourself this question: if the welfare system is not quickly reformed, what solutions will our politicians turn to?

The answer is symbolic of the two clashing societal forces in America: the producers versus the recipients. We know that the recipients have more votes.

I believe increased taxes are inevitable and, with Republicans’ opposition to increased income taxes, raising them is questionable. That leaves politicians with a very European solution: a national sales tax. With exemptions for politically favored classes (“poor” people, however defined) it will be hailed as a fair tax that will fall primarily on the “rich.”

“Everybody who understands our long-term budget problems understands we’re going to need a new source of revenue, and a VAT [value-added tax] is an obvious candidate,” said Leonard Burman, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, who testified on Capitol Hill [May, 2009] about his own VAT plan. “It’s common to the rest of the world, and we don’t have it.”

And my point is that Americans will accept high taxes to get their benefits and that makes us similar to Europeans who are used to them:

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If we cannot achieve fundamental reform of our welfare system, then high taxes will become a fixture of our society and that has negative economic consequences.

There is an economic concept known as the Rahn Curve, devised by Professor Richard Rahn, now a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. It states that as government spending exceeds a certain percentage of GDP, the economy will decline as a result. That number is subject to fierce debate among economists, but it ranges from 15% to 25% of GDP.

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There are sound reasons for this idea, mainly that since government produces nothing, the more it spends the less the private economy has to invest and spend. This means less productivity. European countries are saddled with low productivity, high taxes, and permanently high unemployment. Further, they are facing the same demographic issues that we find in the US: a graying (and declining) population. Their welfare systems are in trouble now, and as Margaret Thatcher famously warned about socialism, they are finding that eventually you really do run out of other people’s money.

What does this mean for America and S&P? It means we are likely to experience a downgrade in our sovereign debt at some point in the future. Don’t ask me to predict when this will happen. There are too many “what ifs.” A downgrade means that there will be less money available to the government for its programs. It means that debt service costs will rise. It means the Treasury will find it more difficult to place US debt. It means that many holder of our debt will try to unload their positions (it won’t be easy for them). It means the Fed will likely acquire more Treasurys, effectively monetizing the debt and this monetary inflation will lead to price inflation. It means that the dollar will decline further. It means there will be pressure on the government to raise taxes further. It also means that inflation will be employed as an additional tool of fiscal policy as rising prices (actually devalued dollars) will allow the government to repay debt with cheaper dollars.

It will also mean that we will be closer to the European ideal and farther away from american exceptionalism. The very long-term consequences of this cannot be known, but it won’t be good for america…’

(Washington Post) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009, a report says.

Study: Affordable rentals scarce (Washington Post) Share of renters who spend more than half their income on housing is at its highest level in half a century.

Poll: For Obama, low marks on Afghan war (Washington Post) More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s management of the war in Afghanistan than support it, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a finding that reflects the public’s broader concern over the course of the nearly decade-old conflict.

Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (Washington Post) As gas prices bite into household incomes, Obama’s support takes a hit, according to new poll. The high fuel price dynamic is the slow / now faster motion, long predicted hyperinflationary consequence of failed fed, administration, congressional economic / financial / fiscal policy that essentially has been interposed for the (short-term particularly) benefit of the frauds on wall street (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure… an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows Return of Inflation: 5 Worrying Signs From Friday's NY Times

Gerson: How serious are we about the deficit? (Washington Post) [ Not too! I mean come on! Davis ‘… This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ … Suckers’ rally to keep suckers suckered: Philadelphia Fed Depresses Economists Durden ‘On Thursday April 21, 2011, 1:32 pm EDT And here comes the first indicator that Q2 GDP is about to be mass revised by everyone, courtesy of Japan, and ongoing inflation pressures: the Philadelphia Fed collapsed from a revised 43.4 (a 27 year high) to 18.5, the lowest since November 2010… This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come!

Corporate Poll Reveals Boobeoisie Fooled Again on Budget Kurt Nimmo | Little people think for some reason establishment Republicans will do a better job dealing with the “budget.”

Dollar Loses More Ground

WSJ | The dollar dropped after economic indicators pointed to a dismal employment picture and slowing economic growth.

Economic Growth Slow as Inflation Measure Spikes Up Reuters | U.S. economic growth slowed more than expected in the first quarter as higher food and gasoline prices dampened consumer spending.

Don’t worry about silver until it hits at least $100, says Jim Rogers Commodities bull Jim Rogers has admitted he is worried that silver might go “parabolic” and crash later this year. The 69-year-old investor remains confident that gold will continue to rise but says that if silver continues to rise at its recent rate, “you’ve got a bubble”.

McDonalds Hires 62,000, Turns Away Over 938,000 Applicants For Minimum Wage, Part-Time Jobs This is what the US economy has been reduced to: McDonalds reports that as part of its employment event to hire 50,000 minimum wage, part-time (mostly) workers, subsequently raised to 62,000 it received a whopping 1 million applications, or a Tim Geithner jealousy inducing 6.2% hit rate (h/t X. Kurt. OSis).

Chinese Yuan Hits 18 Year High Against Dollar The world’s most anticipated currency revaluation continues at its traditional glacial pace. And while it is not a surprise to anyone, the overnight PBOC fixing for the CNY dropped below the psychological 6.50 level (or 6.4990 to be precise) for the first time since 1993.

People are leaving California city because of poor economy There is much talk in Washington, D.C. that the economic recovery is underway, but in some parts of the America, like in Riverside, Ca., the economy continues to take a downward spiral.

National security shake-up expected (Washington Post) [ Shake-up? I don’t think so. There may have been a time when a such changes, be it personnel, policy, etc., might as per the following reference be slight exaggeration; but no more, as all such now is literally a rearrangement of the deck chairs on the uss Titanic. Nothing succeeds quite like failure in america these days! Poll: Egyptians skeptical about U.S. Egyptians have an unfavorable view of the U.S., but they are also divided over Islamic fundamentalists. (Washington Post) [ Hey! … Guess what? … americans and the rest of the world (except zionist israel, zionists, and old biddy britain) are skeptical and have an unfavorable view of america. The Economic Collapse: 24 more signs of economic decline in America…

#1 On Monday, S&P altered its outlook on U.S. government debt from “stable” to “negative” ..at the rest of the world is losing faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries.

#2 China has announced reducing their holdings of U.S. dollar

#3 .. “panic dollar selling is setting in” and U.S. dollar in for a huge decline.

#4 The biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is now shorting U.S. government bonds.

#5 Bad economy is causing “ghost towns” to appear all across the U.S..

#6 There are now about 7.25 million less jobs in America than when the recession began back in 2007.

#7 The average American family is having a really tough time - Only 45.4% of Americans had a job during 2010. .

#8 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year- lowest level ever ..

#9 Avg CEO made 343 times more money than the average American

#10 Gas prices five dollars per gallon at gas stations.. $6 gas soon

#11 .. 12 months the average price of gasoline in the US has gone up by about 30%.

#12 Due to rising fuel prices, American Airlines lost a staggering $436 million during first qtr 2011.

#13 U.S. households now receiving more from the US gov’t than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#14 1 of 4 dollars that the U.S. govt borrows goes to pay the interest on the national debt.

#15 Total home mortgage debt in the United States is now about 5 times larger than it was just 20 years ago.

#16 Total credit card debt in u.s. more than 8 times larger than 30 yrs ago.

#17 Avg household debt in the United States has now reached a level of 136% of avg household income. In China, avg household debt is only 17% of avg household income.

#18 Avg American spends approximately 23 percent .. on food and gas.

#19 .. 74 percent of u.s. said that they planned to slow down their spending

#20 59 percent u.s. receive money from the govt ..

#21 avg length of unemployment in the U.S. is now an all-time record 39 weeks.

#22 u.s. random acts of violence”…

#23 Americans are popping the gold teeth right out of their mouths / selling them to pawn shops.

#24 ..u.s. people gobbling up larger and larger amounts of antidepressants / other drugs. ..’ ]

The president, lost in thought (Washington Post) In politics, deep and complex thinkers such as Obama can seem adrift. [ How ‘bout just lost! Wobama apologist Mr. Milbank is at it again;viz., new ways to explain away wobama’s reflection at trying to remember what he previously said so as not to appear as to have been as disingenuous as you’d expect a common liar to be. Yet, I believe Mr. Milbank misreads the current signs which in fact reflect for ‘wobama the b’ (for b* s*) a current loss beyond thought which has cast him into a ‘funk’: Drudgereport: `TELEPROMPTER INVENTOR DIES... (Wobama ‘goes in mourning … day of silence declared’)`

Attorney General Holder defends his tenure (Washington Post) [ Defending the indefensible! Yes … there is no defending this ag … He should step down, forced to resign … Obama faces fundraising test in California (Washington Post) [ Test? You mean intelligence test for those Californians? A cliché, aphorism is apposite: ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me’. Now frauds on wall street got value for their bribes; viz., no prosecution of their continuing nation-destroying frauds, yet cleaning up the frauds with prosecutions was the presumption upon which their support was predicated , at least in part. Certainly Hollywood spoke with their academy award for ‘Inside Job’ . Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ), the commentator / experts recommend getting rid of the corrupt eric holder ( what do holder and wobama have in common … wall street money? … a proclivity for jive-talking / b* s* ?...all/some of the above … or is it something else ... . UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown. ]

ECONOMIC CRISIS ARCHIVE

(4-29-11) Dow 12,810 +47 Nasdaq 2,872 -1 S&P 500 1,363 +3 [CLOSE- OIL $113.93 (-54% for year 2008) (RECORD TRADING HIGH $147.27) GAS $3.86 (reg. gas in LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS $4.22 REG./ $4.35 MID-GRADE/$4.45 PREM./ $4.61 DIESELL) / GOLD $1,563 (+24% for year 2009) / SILVER $47.88 (+47% for year 2009) PLATINUM $1,869 (+56% for year 2009) Metal News for the Day / DOLLAR= .68 EURO, 80 YEN, .60 POUND STERLING, ETC. (How low can you go - LOWER)/ Interest Rates: http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/interest-rates/Pages/TextView.aspx?data=yield 10 YR NOTE YIELD 3.35% …..… AP Business Highlights ...Yahoo Market Update... T. Rowe Price Weekly Recap – Stocks / Bonds / Currencies - Domestic / International This Is a Secular Bear Market and The End of Buy and Hold … and Hope The bull market that never was/were beyond wall street b.s. when measured in gold ‘WORST ECONOMIC COLLAPSE EVER’ Must Read Economic / Financial Data This Depression is just beginning The coming depression… thecomingdepression.net The Next Wave of Collapse is Coming Sooner than you think Sliding Back Into the Great Depression ABSOLUTELY, ABSURDLY, RIDICULOUS! SELL / TAKE PROFITS WHILE YOU CAN SINCE MUCH, MUCH WORSE TO COME!

National / World

Approval of Congress at 9% Rasmussen Reports | Nine percent (9%) now say Congress is doing a good.

Original rulers of the celebrity world (Washington Post) Perhaps more than any single event, wedding is exposing members of royal family for what they really are. [ What they really are? … only slightly less nauseating than the wobamas! … I mean, come on … at least actors serve some purpose; viz., the cinematic artform. I refrained from ‘raining on their parade’ as ‘bad style’ but now I can say the same is ‘much ado about nothing’, and quite embarrassing for particularly Orwellian england which is in shambles, much like the pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt u.s.. In this world, there are no elites, nothing royal, and monarchies are indulgent anachronisms that are obsolete and can no longer be afforded. It’s rather pathetic to see the brits and yanks falling all over themselves on this. After all, aren’t the so-called royals no more than over-indulged, opulently accoutered welfare families upon whose wealth, though largely the result of public ‘largess’, the servile public have no lien. … in evolutionary terms vis-a-vis the species, though I hate to be the spoiler, 'time has run out'. After all, in the last analysis, what can you really expect from a species derived from apes, notochordates, and initially single celled organisms. One might even say in light of such humble beginnings, 'hey, not bad!' I would not be one of them. ( Neanderthals, Humans Interbred, DNA Proves

You're a Neanderthal: Genes say yes — a little bit (AP) Neanderthals and people interbred, fossil analysis finds For more info on man’s humble beginnings, see here http://www.albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm [

FOUND: MISSING LINK BETWEEN APES AND MAN.... `These stories, and the many like it, are old news and I subscribe to the more studied view that there is no “missing link” per se and in my view they are distinctions without significant differences.`

10-5-09 Postscript: Professor *****,
I felt compelled to thank you again for the add; not to curry your favor but indeed to express profound thanks inasmuch as this is probably the last formal course at a formal educational institution I'll ever take; and among the most important. While I had bought at discount a library-discarded 1993 Anthropology by Embers text, though meaning to read same never quite got to it. I am astounded by the substantial amount of time involved in the evolutionary process, not that I ever stopped to think about it, and one must come away with the sense of 'and all that...for this?'. This course should be required curriculum along with psychology, sociology, etc., but probably won't be owing to what is, as it should be, a very humbling educational experience for any member of the human race.
Regards,
Al Peia ). ]

More Democrats defiant on debt ceiling (Washington Post) Lawmakers are pushing back against the White House, joining the GOP in calling for deficit reductions as a condition for lifting the $14.3 trillion ceiling. [ Ah yes, ‘The Defiant Ones’… principled to the end … Gerson: How serious are we about the deficit? (Washington Post) [ Not too! I mean come on! Davis ‘… This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ … Suckers’ rally to keep suckers suckered: Philadelphia Fed Depresses Economists Durden ‘On Thursday April 21, 2011, 1:32 pm EDT And here comes the first indicator that Q2 GDP is about to be mass revised by everyone, courtesy of Japan, and ongoing inflation pressures: the Philadelphia Fed collapsed from a revised 43.4 (a 27 year high) to 18.5, the lowest since November 2010… This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come!

The Economic Collapse: 24 more signs of economic decline in America…

#1 On Monday, S&P altered its outlook on U.S. government debt from “stable” to “negative” ..at the rest of the world is losing faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries.

#2 China has announced reducing their holdings of U.S. dollar

#3 .. “panic dollar selling is setting in” and U.S. dollar in for a huge decline.

#4 The biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is now shorting U.S. government bonds.

#5 Bad economy is causing “ghost towns” to appear all across the U.S..

#6 There are now about 7.25 million less jobs in America than when the recession began back in 2007.

#7 The average American family is having a really tough time - Only 45.4% of Americans had a job during 2010. .

#8 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year- lowest level ever ..

#9 Avg CEO made 343 times more money than the average American

#10 Gas prices five dollars per gallon at gas stations.. $6 gas soon …11-24…]

Key Afghan aid programs delayed (Washington Post) [ Strategy? Critical time? Seems we’ve heard that song before. And, yet another nation and innocent lives destroyed for no good reason … and, pervasively corrupt and defacto bankrupt america … winning hearts and minds …NOT! … Petraeus to helm more-militarized CIA (Washington Post) [ I personally unequivocally believe there has already been a defacto coup d’etat in america. Drudgereport: Pentagon Warns Obama Against Deeper Defense Cuts ... (And where is it going to come from ... we've already had in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, war crimes nation america a defacto coup d'etat) ... Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’ US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” I also personally believe there has been a defacto coup d’etat which has manifested in various substantial, blatant, brazened frauds, ie., wall street, missing 360 tons of $100 bills in Iraq, war profiteering, etc., without any fear of prosecution, and of course concomitant decline for u.s. as the treasury is looted. But I also believe its scope is beyond just the CIA with many complicit within the corrupted 3 branches of u.s. government (fed judges, us attorneys, illegal system, etc.) plus the military and private big money, ie., Goldman Sachs / wall street men, etc… http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm

Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government .. CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 has told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he has been working as a U.S. government asset for years. . Rendition: Where the War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs Henningsen | ... I’ve experienced the corrupt inter-relationship of the government (all 3 corrupt branches) and the illegal drug trade / obstruction of justice / bribery first hand, particularly the courts / u.s. attorneys offices (ie., alito – now u.s. supreme court justice – quid pro quo for his complicity / cover-up), feds

… “torture taxis” – used by the CIA to move captives seized in its kidnapping or “extraordinary rendition” operations through Gatwick and other airports in the EU being simultaneously used for drug distribution .. A Gulfstream II jet aircraft N9875A identified by the British Government and the European Parliament as being involved in this traffic crashed in Mexico…” In 2004, another torture taxi crashed in a field in Nicaragua with a ton of cocaine aboard… Mexican soldiers found ..132 bags containing 3.3 metric tons of cocaine. .. was one of the very same planes chartered to the CIA for the rendition of suspected terrorists prisoners…’]

Royal Family Enforces Media Embargo Against Australia To Prevent Nazi Jokes

Trifecta of Mass Murder Sets Stage for Attack on Syria Kurt Nimmo | John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham demand Obama call for resignation of Syrian leader.

Pop Culture Icon Rihanna Put Through TSA Naked Body Scanner In Show Of Power Steve Watson | Random scans? Not when there’s an attractive megastar in the security line.

Globalists Plan to Starve Libyan People to Death Kurt Nimmo | Innocents always suffer when their leaders stand up to the financial elite.

Obama Working “Under The Radar” To Sneak Attack Second Amendment Paul Joseph Watson | Administration cited gun smuggling from U.S. to Mexico as reason to chill gun rights, despite fact federal government program deliberately delivered firearms to Mexican drug lords.

Poll: 60% Reject Government ID for Online Security Cape Fear Business News | Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows just 13% of American Adults favor issuing of secure government credential.

Globalists Plan to Starve Libyan People to Death Libya will soon suffer the fate of Iraq. According to the World Food Program, a United Nations outfit, the north African country will soon experience a food crisis. In a statement, the organization said the engineered armed conflict in the country is seriously undermining the supply and distribution of perishable goods.

Trump loses cool over Saudis and ‘f*&king’ price of oil Donald Trump gave a speech last night at the Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas in which he had an imaginary conversation with the Saudi Arabian government over the price of oil. “You’re not gonna raise that fucking price!” he said to a crowd lubricated by the event’s open bar. In another part of the speech, he called President Obama and other US leaders “stupid people” with regards to their handling of the crises in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq, and China.

Secret Silver Buying by Russian Billionaire, Chinese Traders, and People’s Bank of China to Lead to Comex Silver Default? A COMEX default would have massive ramifications for precious metals markets, for the wider commodity markets, for the dollar, fiat currencies and our modern financial system.

Charlie Veitch Still In Police Custody, Taken To London A spokesman from Cambridgeshire police said: “We arrested a 30-year-old man yesterday on behalf of Met Police. He was firstly taken to Parkside police station but the Met have since taken him down to London.”

Obama Working “Under The Radar” To Sneak Attack Second Amendment According to a little noticed quote in the Washington Post earlier this month which has attracted virtually no media attention, President Obama told gun control advocate Sarah Brady that his administration is working “under the radar” to sneak attack the second amendment rights of American citizens.

Obama’s Birth Certificate: Not the Issue Like it or not, your real government consists of unelected bankers and corporate special interests.

Krauthammer: Obama leads from behind (Washington Post) [ Behind … as in pulling it out of his arse! He is clearly a failed president as was his predecessor, war criminal dumbya bush, et als. The president, lost in thought (Washington Post) In politics, deep and complex thinkers such as Obama can seem adrift. [ How ‘bout just lost! Wobama apologist Mr. Milbank is at it again;viz., new ways to explain away wobama’s reflection at trying to remember what he previously said so as not to appear as to have been as disingenuous as you’d expect a common liar to be. Yet, I believe Mr. Milbank misreads the current signs which in fact reflect for ‘wobama the b’ (for b* s*) a current loss beyond thought which has cast him into a ‘funk’: Drudgereport: `TELEPROMPTER INVENTOR DIES... (Wobama ‘goes in mourning … day of silence declared’)`

Julian Assange to RT: Worst WikiLeaks cables yet to come The man behind WikiLeaks says his website’s revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known. The publication of confidential cables proved deeply embarrassing for the US and other countries.

Losing Faith (In The U.S. Economy) Are the American people losing faith in the U.S. economy? The statistics that you are about to read might surprise you.

The Royal Wedding, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars And 7 Other Ways That The American People Are Being Distracted From Our Real Problems Have you caught “royal wedding fever” yet? The union of Prince William and Kate Middleton is already being called “the wedding of the century” and it will almost certainly be the most watched event in the entire world this year.

Gallup Poll Shows that More Americans Believe the U.S. is in a Depression than is Growing … Are They Right? [Yes!] Consumer confidence is, well … in somewhat of a depression.

Ron Paul Slams Bernanke’s “Staged” Media Show Congressman Ron Paul issued stern words in response to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s “historic” first ever press conference yesterday, noting that it “predictably provided no substantive information,” and served as an extremely poor PR attempt to placate an incensed American public.

Superman Announces He’s A Globalist? Superman replies that it was foolish to think that his actions would not reflect politically on the American government, and that he therefore plans to renounce his American citizenship at the United Nations the next day — and to continue working as a superhero from a more global than national perspective.

PROOF!!! Obama Birth Certificate Fraud

Drudgereport: SF CHRONICLE: WHITE HOUSE LYING Update: In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib: Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.The Chronicle's report is accurate…’Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bronstein/detail?entry_id=87978#ixzz1Kzv7asG6
PUMP PRICES JUMP ON TIGHTENING SUPPLIES...
Romney blames Obama...
MORE RECORD PROFITS... Gold Surges to All-time Record...
Dollar reaches three-year low...
Losing to the Loonie...
China divesting... NO JOKE: Superman to renounce U.S. citizenship...

Storm death over 300 in South...
Deadliest Swarm of Twisters Since 1974...
Among Largest, Strongest Ever Recorded... ECONOMY SLOWS, INFLATION GROWS...
Doubt cast on recovery...
Dollar drops to lowest since 2008...
Investors flee greenback; silver hits all-time high, gold sets new record...
GALLUP: U.S. confidence plunges, only 27% say economy is growing...
WAL-MART: Our shoppers are 'running out of money'...
JOBLESS CLAIMS 429,000...

CBS ANCHOR SCHIEFFER: Trump is racist... TRUMP TO GIBBS: YOU'RE 'A LOSER' [‘Another trumped-up case of the pot calling the kettle black’]... TRUMP: Obama Not Worthy of Ivy Leagues... [ Talk about the pot calling the kettle black … trump’s b.s., low grade (penn) ivy league (courtesy of papa mobster trump who ‘twisted his arm to go’ so people would take him ‘seriously’ – papa mobster trump would pound the undistinguished academically / athletically, Donald with the mantra, ‘you’re a killer, you’re a king’ in film noir melodramatic fashion which proved too much for the more balanced and ‘chosen / favored’ elder brother trump who committed suicide. The old man also required trump to go to prep / military / boarding school where according to a classmate, Ted Levine, trump used to wet / pee in his bed. ) vegetable garden in the same manner as dumbya bush … mobster trump and people like trump are part of the problem (total b*** s***, fraud, etc., as in his home turf, mob-infested sinkholes, jersey / new york), not the solution. Indeed, trump is an interesting mental case in that he evolved from narcissist (those inflated grandiose moods coupled with feelings of inferiority – he loved to obsessively read those hitler speeches for inspiration and to pump himself up according to Ivana Trump) to severe case of antisocial personality disorder [ predatory disregard for and violation of the rights of others – hence, those sophomoric soundbite solutions to complex problems as, ie., taking oil fields(Libya), 25% tariff on Chinese (actually including american goods made in China), drug money laundering in his casinos, bribery, etc.http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]

In a rational nation that wasn’t in decline as pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america, trump and sister Maryanne would both be in prison.

'Terrible student,' not good enough for Harvard... Biden daughter trashes Trump...
Bill Cosby slams: 'He's full of it!'...
Trump Takes On NYT, Gail Collins...
Admires her for surviving 'so long with so little talent'...
NBCWSJ POLL SHOCK: TRUMP #2 GOP [ NBC where t_rump has his Jerry Springer derivative shock-jock show and sinkhole new york's fraud street journal … poll? … Don't make me laugh … Lawrence O'Donnell insists parent company NBC consider firing Donald Trump Daily Caller ... Milbank: Donald trumps CPAC | Gibbs gone (Washington Post) [ Trump’s a loser, dressed up and propped up by and to shill for a declining, fallen nation in the most corrupt regions (ie., new york, jersey, etc.) of the country (every fallen nation has such); of that there is no question …"Over the years I've participated in many battles and have really almost come out very, very victorious every single time," the Donald said. (Except for the bankruptc[ies], that is. [ trump’s never won a battle that wasn’t fixed in advance (including the ‘pre-packaged bankrupcies’ crammed down the throats of objecting creditors – jersey general ] He also with his corrupt mob ilk 'chased' Steve Wynn out of jersey – Steve Wynn's doing extremely well in Macau and Vegas.) "I've beaten many people and companies, and I've won many wars," he added. (Though he didn't serve in the military.) "I have fairly [according to mobster rules; ie., bribery, money laundering, etc.] but intelligently [ as any other mob boss … trump is total b*** s***, a fraud, and lightweight … and, despite the façade, quite insecure … trump’s a total mental case … He truly is the ‘poster-boy’ of american decline and part of the problem, not the solution! …trump also said america’s become the laughingstock of the world … true enough … and trump the biggest joke … NEWS FLASH: Direct from Lost Angeles Learning Annex – Presenting mobster t_rump of new yoke, new joyzey, and now caleefornia mob fame with his continuing message for the past several years: buy real estate (and watch the values go down…..riiiiight!).
Bank sues Trump over Chicago tower loan...
Trump casino to miss interest payment...
trump’s fired (from ‘his own company’)

Gunfire Erupts Inside trump Taj Mahal Casino, 1 Dead - Second Such Incident In A Year At N.J. Mainstay Ends With Employee Killed – What else would you you expect from a mobster’s casino in mob-infested jersey!

Trump luxury resort folds, leaving buyers defrauded…litigation has commenced…send for sister maryanne, the corrupt federal judge to preside, coverup, etc., she’s in n.y./n.j./pa 3rd circuit ct appeals, understands drug money laundering/fraud and handles her own motions to recuse her and like mobster trump should be in jail ... (see RICO Case)] earned many billions of dollars [ at whose expense ], which in a sense was both a scorecard and acknowledgment of my abilities [ to fool most of the people, all of the time. ] ." TRUMP DRAWS CHEERS, BOOS AT CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE... PONDERING PRESIDENTIAL RUN... [Don’t make me laugh! … Donald T_rump Would Impose 25% Tax on China Imports if President [ trump also said america’s become the laughingstock of the world … true enough … and trump the biggest joke … Indeed, that trump even posits the possibility of a run when he should be in jail is a testament to just how big a laughingstock pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america’s become! [ If he was mobster in chief, mobster and scoundrel trump wraps himself in populist american flag and offers up an (too little too late – typical lightweight) implausible solution to keep ‘the juice’ flowing though he’d already be in jail in a rational, non-declining nation with meaningful laws. All China has to do is dump (and not prospectively buy) their ever more and declining in value day-by-day (from dollar debasement policies) u.s. paper / bonds and overnight and the u.s. economy consequently thereby collapse. [ When you come right down to it, this has been america’s most significant export. Indeed, this irrevocable structural shift, hailed by cia men hw bush and clinton (clinton couldn’t have survived with them) by way of NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread was indeed in no uncertain terms condemned and warned against by Perot, a man of honor who, unlike his opponents, could not be bought, which is the reason, in pervasively corrupt america, he could never have been elected. Interestingly, you may have noticed the good (but not great, other than the spotlight on pervasive bribery including judges, police, politicians, etc., being far too light) the film ‘The Untouchables’ getting a wide re-airing of late, purporting to be a significant part of american folklore / history / culture. However, the reality is that in america, and certainly today, the real story with impact is that of ‘The Touchables’. The reality is that Elliot Ness died a broken man; bankrupt, unable to even win election to the mayoralty of his then current hometown. He was incorruptible; and hence, in the real america, unelectable at the least if not also all but unemployable (he and his are among those few genetic anomalies in america as I’ve previously alluded to. How far america has fallen from even false perception! Pervasively corrupt, meaningfully lawless america can’t even fake it anymore. See, for example, http://albertpeia.com/CIAAgentAffidavit1.jpg http://albertpeia.com/FBIAgentAffidavit11.jpg , and of course, corrupt legal / judicial processes, etc., Defacto bankrupt, fraudulent america also spends more on offensive (defensive a misnomer / propaganda) military spending than all the nations of the world combined, and by a large margin at that. Do you see a pattern emerging here [ I unfortunately only belatedly did, and the feds, fed employees, cia, all 3 branches of the u.s. government, etc., are included in this evolved american trait of inherent criminality in the most nefarious sense … The pervasively corrupt american illegal system … corrupt u.s. courts / (lawyers) / judges: Their lifetime plush appointments should be abolished, which corrupt entities are unheard of in productive societies as China, Japan, etc.. Time to abolish these drags on society and eliminate their lifetime stipends and costly bureaucracies. Rules of law mean nothing to these typically corrupt americans. Most, including sam alito of the u.s. supreme court, concerning drug money laundering and obstruction of justice in the 3^rd circuit ( also maryanne trump barry who covered-up drug money laundering through her brother’s casinos in a civil RICO case) should have gone to or belong in jail. Contrary to popular belief, they do it for the money, personal money, big, cash, untraceable money. The fog of war is great for such things (360 tons $100 bills flown into Iraq and missing, etc.). [ http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]. america’s just a fraudulent and failed defacto bankrupt nation. ] “I would announce, without equivocation, a 25% tax increase on anything purchased from China.” ]

Economy grows, but slows (Washington Post) Economic growth slowed at the start of the year, weighed down by higher oil prices and lower government spending, according to new data. [ At what cost for that ‘slow growth’, if any. They’re dreamin’!

Fed Chairman Bernanke does reality TV (Washington Post) [ Except the ‘NO-RECESSION HELICOPTER BEN B.S. BERNANKE’ show is scripted unreality … even with his reduction in estimate for ‘economic growth’, the frauds on wall street still rallied. Bernanke prepares to make history (Washington Post) [ He already has! $6 gas acomin’, $1,508+ gold, $46+ silver, other commodities at record levels, hyperinflation as predicted well on the way from over-printing of fiat paper currency by fed as predicted, etc., Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar 'Despite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years, equity valuations are the 2nd largest bubble in U.S. history... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued according to this valuation metric. The only time the markets have been more overvalued was a few brief months in 1929 and the tech bubble

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009.

· The billions saved through “free loading” by homeowners who have defaulted on their mortgages yet maintained their residence, thus living without a mortgage payment.

· The artificially suppressed interest rates...

]

Krauthammer: Obama leads from behind (Washington Post) [ Behind … as in pulling it out of his arse! He is clearly a failed president as was his predecessor, war criminal dumbya bush, et als. The president, lost in thought (Washington Post) In politics, deep and complex thinkers such as Obama can seem adrift. [ How ‘bout just lost! Wobama apologist Mr. Milbank is at it again;viz., new ways to explain away wobama’s reflection at trying to remember what he previously said so as not to appear as to have been as disingenuous as you’d expect a common liar to be. Yet, I believe Mr. Milbank misreads the current signs which in fact reflect for ‘wobama the b’ (for b* s*) a current loss beyond thought which has cast him into a ‘funk’: Drudgereport: `TELEPROMPTER INVENTOR DIES... (Wobama ‘goes in mourning … day of silence declared’)`

Attorney General Holder defends his tenure (Washington Post) [ Defending the indefensible! Yes … there is no defending this ag … He should step down, forced to resign … Obama faces fundraising test in California (Washington Post) [ Test? You mean intelligence test for those Californians? A cliché, aphorism is apposite: ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me’. Now frauds on wall street got value for their bribes; viz., no prosecution of their continuing nation-destroying frauds, yet cleaning up the frauds with prosecutions was the presumption upon which their support was predicated , at least in part. Certainly Hollywood spoke with their academy award for ‘Inside Job’ . Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ), the commentator / experts recommend getting rid of the corrupt eric holder ( what do holder and wobama have in common … wall street money? … a proclivity for jive-talking / b* s* ?...all/some of the above … or is it something else ... . UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown. ]

]

Original rulers of the celebrity world (Washington Post) Perhaps more than any single event, wedding is exposing members of royal family for what they really are. [ What they really are? … only slightly less nauseating than the wobamas! … I mean, come on … at least actors serve some purpose; viz., the cinematic artform. I refrained from ‘raining on their parade’ as ‘bad style’ but now I can say the same is ‘much ado about nothing’, and quite embarrassing for particularly Orwellian england which is in shambles, much like the pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt u.s.. In this world, there are no elites, nothing royal, and monarchies are indulgent anachronisms that are obsolete and can no longer be afforded. It’s rather pathetic to see the brits and yanks falling all over themselves on this. After all, aren’t the so-called royals no more than over-indulged, opulently accoutered welfare families upon whose wealth, though largely the result of public ‘largess’, the servile public have no lien. … in evolutionary terms vis-a-vis the species, though I hate to be the spoiler, 'time has run out'. After all, in the last analysis, what can you really expect from a species derived from apes, notochordates, and initially single celled organisms. One might even say in light of such humble beginnings, 'hey, not bad!' I would not be one of them. ( Neanderthals, Humans Interbred, DNA Proves

You're a Neanderthal: Genes say yes — a little bit (AP) Neanderthals and people interbred, fossil analysis finds For more info on man’s humble beginnings, see here http://www.albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm [

FOUND: MISSING LINK BETWEEN APES AND MAN.... `These stories, and the many like it, are old news and I subscribe to the more studied view that there is no “missing link” per se and in my view they are distinctions without significant differences.`

10-5-09 Postscript: Professor *****,
I felt compelled to thank you again for the add; not to curry your favor but indeed to express profound thanks inasmuch as this is probably the last formal course at a formal educational institution I'll ever take; and among the most important. While I had bought at discount a library-discarded 1993 Anthropology by Embers text, though meaning to read same never quite got to it. I am astounded by the substantial amount of time involved in the evolutionary process, not that I ever stopped to think about it, and one must come away with the sense of 'and all that...for this?'. This course should be required curriculum along with psychology, sociology, etc., but probably won't be owing to what is, as it should be, a very humbling educational experience for any member of the human race.
Regards,
Al Peia ). ]

The Economic Collapse: 24 more signs of economic decline in America…

#1 On Monday, S&P altered its outlook on U.S. government debt from “stable” to “negative” ..at the rest of the world is losing faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries.

#2 China has announced reducing their holdings of U.S. dollar

#3 .. “panic dollar selling is setting in” and U.S. dollar in for a huge decline.

#4 The biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is now shorting U.S. government bonds.

#5 Bad economy is causing “ghost towns” to appear all across the U.S..

#6 There are now about 7.25 million less jobs in America than when the recession began back in 2007.

#7 The average American family is having a really tough time - Only 45.4% of Americans had a job during 2010. .

#8 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year- lowest level ever ..

#9 Avg CEO made 343 times more money than the average American

#10 Gas prices five dollars per gallon at gas stations.. $6 gas soon …11-24…]

Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government .. CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 has told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he has been working as a U.S. government asset for years. . Rendition: Where the War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs Henningsen | ... I’ve experienced the corrupt inter-relationship of the government (all 3 corrupt branches) and the illegal drug trade / obstruction of justice / bribery first hand, particularly the courts / u.s. attorneys offices (ie., alito – now u.s. supreme court justice – quid pro quo for his complicity / cover-up), feds

Disappointing First Quarter GDP Growth (Stocks rally on the bad news!) (The advance estimate for Q1 GDP came in at 1.8 percent — a sharp decline from last quarter’s 3.1 – and worse than expected)

Weekly Unemployment Claims Back Above This Scary Line (Stocks rally on the bad news!) Short ‘On Thursday April 28, 2011, The Department of Labor’s Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. Claims rose 25,000 from an upward revision of the previous week to 429,000. The 4-week moving average increased by 2.3%. Here is the official statement from the Department of Labor:

In the week ending April 23, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 429,000, an increase of 25,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 404,000. The 4-week moving average was 408,500, an increase of 9,250 from the previous week’s revised average of 399,250.

The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 2.9 percent for the week ending April 16, a decrease of 0.1 percentage point from the prior week’s revised rate of 3.0 percent.

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending April 16 was 3,641,000, a decrease of 68,000 from the preceding week’s revised level of 3,709,000. The 4-week moving average was 3,697,750, a decrease of 22,750 from the preceding week’s revised average of 3,720,500.

Today’s number was 10% higher than the Briefing.com consensus expectation of 390,000 claims.

As we can see, there’s a good bit of volatility in this indicator, which is why the 4-week moving average (shown in the callouts) is a more useful number than the weekly data.

http://dshort.com/charts/weekly-unemployment-claims-charts.html?weekly-unemployment-claims

Occasionally I see articles critical of seasonal adjustment, especially when the non-adjusted number better suits the author’s bias. But a comparison of these two charts clearly shows extreme volatility of the non-adjusted data, and the 4-week MA gives an indication of the recurring pattern of seasonal change in the second chart (note, for example, those regular January spikes).

http://dshort.com/charts/weekly-unemployment-claims-charts.html?weekly-unemployment-claims-NSA

Because of the extreme volatility of the non-adjusted weekly data, a 52-week moving average gives a better sense of the long-term trends.

http://dshort.com/charts/weekly-unemployment-claims-charts.html?weekly-unemployment-claims-NSA-52-ma

The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides an overview on seasonal adjustment here (scroll down about half way down).

Doug Short Ph.d is the author of dshort.com.’

Gerald Celente: ‘Bernanke Devaluing the Dollar’ Should Americans be concerned? Absolutely, says Gerald Celente, director at the Trends Research Institute. While Bernanke may have taken to the press, Celente says Ben’s “jive talk” shouldn’t be trusted as he devalues the dollar and distastes the economy.

Trump faces scrutiny over donations, merch made in China (The Ticket)

Dollar Loses More Ground WSJ | The dollar dropped after economic indicators pointed to a dismal employment picture and slowing economic growth.

More people applied for unemployment benefits AP | More people requested unemployment benefits last week, the second increase in 3 weeks

Q1 GDP Prints At 1.8% Misses Consensus OF 2.0%, Plunges From 3.1% In Q4, Initial Claims Surge Nobody could have predicted the economic devastation (even as inflation surges). Nobody. And certain not the wise oracles at the Federal Reserve.

Relentless Dollar Pummeling Continues At the current rate of collapse, in a few more days the dollar will take out all time lows. Currently holding at 73, after hitting 72.8 overnight, the DXY appears set to test the last support from when the dollar carry trade was all the rage again back in 2008.

Has the Fed Decided to Fight Inflation Instead of Unemployment? The Fed has purposefully been encouraging banks to deposit their excess reserves at the Fed (for a profit), rather than loan them out to Main Street.

The Economic Collapse: 24 more signs of economic decline in America…

#1 On Monday, S&P altered its outlook on U.S. government debt from “stable” to “negative” ..at the rest of the world is losing faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries.

#2 China has announced reducing their holdings of U.S. dollar

#3 .. “panic dollar selling is setting in” and U.S. dollar in for a huge decline.

#4 The biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is now shorting U.S. government bonds.

#5 Bad economy is causing “ghost towns” to appear all across the U.S..

#6 There are now about 7.25 million less jobs in America than when the recession began back in 2007.

#7 The average American family is having a really tough time - Only 45.4% of Americans had a job during 2010. .

#8 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year- lowest level ever ..

#9 Avg CEO made 343 times more money than the average American

#10 Gas prices five dollars per gallon at gas stations.. $6 gas soon …

Panic selling of the U.S. dollar now underway as debt system implodes To most Americans it’s unthinkable that the U.S. dollar could someday be relegated to second-class status as a currency, but what they may not realize is that the transition is already underway.

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009.

· The billions saved through “free loading” by homeowners who have defaulted on their mortgages yet maintained their residence, thus living without a mortgage payment.

· The artificially suppressed interest rates...

24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline and it is getting really hard to deny it. ..’ ] States face shortfall for retirees (Washington Post) Public workers’ retirement funds had a gap of $1.26 trillion at the end of fiscal 2009, a report says.

Study: Affordable rentals scarce (Washington Post) Share of renters who spend more than half their income on housing is at its highest level in half a century.

Fuel prices cut into Obama popularity (Washington Post) As gas prices bite into household incomes, Obama’s support takes a hit, according to new poll. The high fuel price dynamic is the slow / now faster motion, long predicted hyperinflationary consequence of failed fed, administration, congressional economic / financial / fiscal policy that essentially has been interposed for the (short-term particularly) benefit of the frauds on wall street (The frauds on wall street et als should be criminally prosecuted, jailed, fined, and disgorgement imposed), and have used the mideast turmoil to obfuscate their failure. Dave's Daily 'If you can keep interest rates this low this long, its inevitable cheap financing can allow companies to start cobbling each other up. Further Ben's policies allow companies like IBM to sell bonds at 1% and buy back shares with the proceeds (total paper bubble-scam). POMO is occurring almost daily and Primary Dealers can buy back their shares and pay dividends with what essentially is taxpayer money-- … an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come! America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog / the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar ... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued …only time the markets have been more overvalued .. 1929 & tech bubble. http://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2011/4/12/saupload_cape_thumb1.png PRECHTER: We're Still In A Massive Bear Market And Stocks Will Crash To New Lows Return of Inflation: 5 Worrying Signs From Friday's NY Times

ECONOMIC CRISIS ARCHIVE

National / World

Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government The “logistical coordinator” for a top Mexican drug-trafficking gang that was responsible for purchasing the CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 has told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he has been working as a U.S. government asset for years.

Charlie Veitch Arrested In Pre-Crime Raid Prior to Royal Wedding Paul Joseph Watson | In a You Tube video posted earlier this week, Veitch warned that he was under surveillance and that he was being followed around London.

Digital Artifacts Prove Obama Birth Certificate Altered Kurt Nimmo | Artifacts reveal document was manipulated by image editing software.

Is Birther Circus A White House Political Ploy? Paul Joseph Watson | While the nation is distracted by another partisan political football, the machine behind Obama rolls onwards.

Rand Paul Demands To See “Original Long Form Certificate” Of Trump’s Republican Credentials Steve Watson | Senator draws on farce of birther distraction to make a very serious point.

New Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery Kurt Nimmo | Our investigation of the purported Obama birth certificate released by Hawaiian authorities today reveals the document is a shoddily contrived hoax.

Obama Birth Certificate is Just as Authentic as the Money Supply, the Food Supply and Obamacare Does it matter that it’s a fake in the first place? Given that most of the U.S. government’s job statistics are fake, and that the U.S. dollar is being counterfeited on a daily basis by the Fed, and that virtually the entire U.S. economy is built on fake “abundance” that’s really just more debt spending… isn’t it is some way actually more authentic to have a President at the helm who faked his birth certificate?

#1 On Monday, S&P altered its outlook on U.S. government debt from “stable” to “negative” ..at the rest of the world is losing faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries.

#2 China has announced reducing their holdings of U.S. dollar

#3 .. “panic dollar selling is setting in” and U.S. dollar in for a huge decline.

#4 The biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is now shorting U.S. government bonds.

#5 Bad economy is causing “ghost towns” to appear all across the U.S..

#6 There are now about 7.25 million less jobs in America than when the recession began back in 2007.

#7 The average American family is having a really tough time - Only 45.4% of Americans had a job during 2010. .

#8 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year- lowest level ever ..

#9 Avg CEO made 343 times more money than the average American

#10 Gas prices five dollars per gallon at gas stations.. $6 gas soon

#11 .. 12 months the average price of gasoline in the US has gone up by about 30%.

#12 Due to rising fuel prices, American Airlines lost a staggering $436 million during first qtr 2011.

#13 U.S. households now receiving more from the US gov’t than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#14 1 of 4 dollars that the U.S. govt borrows goes to pay the interest on the national debt.

#15 Total home mortgage debt in the United States is now about 5 times larger than it was just 20 years ago.

#16 Total credit card debt in u.s. more than 8 times larger than 30 yrs ago.

#17 Avg household debt in the United States has now reached a level of 136% of avg household income. In China, avg household debt is only 17% of avg household income.

#18 Avg American spends approximately 23 percent .. on food and gas.

#19 .. 74 percent of u.s. said that they planned to slow down their spending

#20 59 percent u.s. receive money from the govt ..

#21 avg length of unemployment in the U.S. is now an all-time record 39 weeks.

#22 u.s. random acts of violence”…

#23 Americans are popping the gold teeth right out of their mouths / selling them to pawn shops.

#24 ..u.s. people gobbling up larger and larger amounts of antidepressants / other drugs. ..’ ]

The president, lost in thought (Washington Post) In politics, deep and complex thinkers such as Obama can seem adrift. [ How ‘bout just lost! Wobama apologist Mr. Milbank is at it again;viz., new ways to explain away wobama’s reflection at trying to remember what he previously said so as not to appear as to have been as disingenuous as you’d expect a common liar to be. Yet, I believe Mr. Milbank misreads the current signs which in fact reflect for ‘wobama the b’ (for b* s*) a current loss beyond thought which has cast him into a ‘funk’: Drudgereport: `TELEPROMPTER INVENTOR DIES... (Wobama ‘goes in mourning … day of silence declared’)`

Attorney General Holder defends his tenure (Washington Post) [ Defending the indefensible! Yes … there is no defending this ag … He should step down, forced to resign … Obama faces fundraising test in California (Washington Post) [ Test? You mean intelligence test for those Californians? A cliché, aphorism is apposite: ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me’. Now frauds on wall street got value for their bribes; viz., no prosecution of their continuing nation-destroying frauds, yet cleaning up the frauds with prosecutions was the presumption upon which their support was predicated , at least in part. Certainly Hollywood spoke with their academy award for ‘Inside Job’ . Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ), the commentator / experts recommend getting rid of the corrupt eric holder ( what do holder and wobama have in common … wall street money? … a proclivity for jive-talking / b* s* ?...all/some of the above … or is it something else ... . UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown. ]

Rand Paul Demands To See “Original Long Form Certificate” Of Trump’s Republican Credentials In a cleverly worded dig at the current circus sideshow birther revival, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul today called for Donald Trump to prove he has any Republican credentials whatsoever as his father Congressman Ron Paul prepares to run for the GOP nomination in 2012.

Is Birther Circus A White House Political Ploy? The White House’s decision to wade into the contentious echo chamber of the so-called “birther” issue just months before the campaign trail for 2012 begins, by releasing a dubious document that has only intensified the firestorm of interest surrounding the issue, is either political suicide or part of a well thought out ploy aimed at securing Obama a second term in the Oval Office.

Ron Paul Slams Bernanke’s “Staged” Media Show Congressman Ron Paul issued stern words in response to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s “historic” first ever press conference yesterday, noting that it “predictably provided no substantive information,” and served as an extremely poor PR attempt to placate an incensed American public.

US vs. China: Winner Takes It All? Leading economists predict America’s age will end in five years. The International Monetary Fund forecasts that, after more than a century as the world’s largest economy, the U.S. will be usurped by CHINA as early as 2016. RT’s Kaelyn Forde looks at the sun’s definitely rising in the east.

Wal Mart CEO: “Shoppers Are Running Out Of Money”; There Is “No Sign Of A Recovery” “Wal-Mart’s core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried. “We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure,” Duke said at an event in New York. “There’s no doubt that rising fuel prices are having an impact.”

Obama Birth Certificate Number Proves Forgery? Despite the establishment media declaring “case closed” on the birther issue, the release of what purports to be Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate has only caused a firestorm of new suspicion amongst Americans, with the document only serving to confirm unexplained anomalies, such as why Obama’s birth certificate number is higher than that of people born after him at the same hospital.

PROOF!!! Obama Birth Certificate Fraud The Obama administration finally laid to rest all the rumors of the place of his birth with the release of his long form birth certificate. But closer inspection has prompted more questions than answers. For starters there are numerous layers. Some of the numerical characters look as if they were added after the fact by a printer rather than a typewriter. Alex Jones and Rob Dew demonstrate that the Obama team is keeping with the trend of being transparent as a brick wall.

Petraeus to helm more-militarized CIA (Washington Post) [ I personally unequivocally believe there has already been a defacto coup d’etat in america. Drudgereport: Pentagon Warns Obama Against Deeper Defense Cuts ... (And where is it going to come from ... we've already had in pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt, war crimes nation america a defacto coup d'etat) ... Ron Paul: After ‘CIA coup,’ agency ‘runs military’ US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” I also personally believe there has been a defacto coup d’etat which has manifested in various substantial, blatant, brazened frauds, ie., wall street, missing 360 tons of $100 bills in Iraq, war profiteering, etc., without any fear of prosecution, and of course concomitant decline for u.s. as the treasury is looted. But I also believe its scope is beyond just the CIA with many complicit within the corrupted 3 branches of u.s. government (fed judges, us attorneys, illegal system, etc.) plus the military and private big money, ie., Goldman Sachs / wall street men, etc., among other organized crime. america is defacto bankrupt in every way! Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government The “logistical coordinator” for a top Mexican drug-trafficking gang that was responsible for purchasing the CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 has told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he has been working as a U.S. government asset for years. Rendition: Where the War on Terror Meets the War on Drugs Henningsen | ... I’ve experienced the corrupt inter-relationship of the government (all 3 corrupt branches) and the illegal drug trade / obstruction of justice / bribery first hand, particularly the courts / u.s. attorneys offices (ie., alito – now u.s. supreme court justice – quid pro quo for his complicity / cover-up), feds; see immediately after article excerpt for links / summary.

…“Evidence points to aircraft – familiarly known as “torture taxis” – used by the CIA to move captives seized in its kidnapping or “extraordinary rendition” operations through Gatwick and other airports in the EU being simultaneously used for drug distribution .. A Gulfstream II jet aircraft N9875A identified by the British Government and the European Parliament as being involved in this traffic crashed in Mexico…” In 2004, another torture taxi crashed in a field in Nicaragua with a ton of cocaine aboard… Mexican soldiers found ..132 bags containing 3.3 metric tons of cocaine. .. was one of the very same planes chartered to the CIA for the rendition of suspected terrorists prisoners…’]

Drudgereport: NO JOKE: Superman to renounce U.S. citizenship...

Storm death near 300 in South...
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Fed Spin Lifts Stocks: Dave's Daily ‘It's a con plain and simple. I've bought into it because I must. Overall we're long and will be until the jig's up. Until then, I've advised subscribers for many months that our Lazy Portfolios are the path to success as Fed policies steamroll most technical systems beyond HFTs [high-frequency traders]. When it ends, and it will, it's back to business as usual. Earnings have been good, especially for companies (MMM, KO, MCD and etc.) where a weak dollar has led to grand overseas profits. Most of those gains remain stashed abroad and will remain there until U.S. corporate tax policy changes--a cold day in hell IMHO. Further, Fed policies have been positive for financial engineering, M&A, corporate debt financings and stock buybacks. This is the result of a sea of liquidity finding its way to Wall Street which trickles down to S&P 500 companies. It leads to minimal gains in U.S. employment as companies are stimulated to outsource work overseas. It does not lift real estate prices off the deck either. The great con remains current inflation, which Bernanke alluded to briefly in his comments today. They cling to "core" inflation as their measure of choice while we commoners who shop everyday for essentials know better. Turbo Tim even had the nerve to say the other day high gas prices are something we'll just "adjust to" and "won't hurt" the recovery. He has a government car and driver. He also had the nerve to reiterate the necessity to maintain a strong dollar. Yikes! The Fed expects GDP to grow between 3.1 and 3.3% this year. Thursday's GDP data may serve as a guide although expectations are for a weaker report. It's been a strange week as the dollar continued to slide, commodities rallied and stocks moved higher on ultra light volume. As to the latter, where is everybody? Most retail investors are content to hang on to their IRAs and 401Ks but they're still distrustful of markets. From the data it seems they'd rather have a new car or TV which is something they can trust. Current trading patterns remain dominated by HFTs whether from institutional trading desks or hedge funds. This is the way we've rolled since QE2 began...’

Is the Market Crazy? [ Short answer: Yes! Fraudulently, criminally insane type crazy! ]

Can Dollar Weakness Mean Equity Weakness? Kaspar ‘Are there any dollar bulls left? Inflationists across the web are crying ‘victory’ as the dollar sinks and certain asset prices (especially oil prices, food prices, and the gold price) mushroom higher. To the level-headed, you should exercise extreme caution against assumed fixed correlations like “weak dollar” means “asset price increases.” Correlations can quickly change.

A mentor of mine consistently preaches that the market will always do whatever it can to make most investors look foolish. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is a case that investors should at least consider: that an accelerating decline in the dollar could turn asset prices negative, at least in the short term.

The 1987 crash is an appropriate case study. The cause of that October market crash, when the S&P 500 lost 20.5% in a single day, has never been thoroughly explained. No major event could be credited as the catalyst for such a monstrous and rapid decline.

Portfolio insurance, rapidly rising long term US interest rates, a series of preceding market declines during the week leading up to the crash, and a weakening US dollar are all mentioned as possible triggers. In truth, it was likely a confluence of these and other factors that ultimately pushed the market to a tipping point.

One macro factor stands out among the rest: the rapidly weakening US dollar leading up to Black Monday.

Beginning in late July of 1987, the dollar, after already falling to a seven year low just a few months prior, began a steep decline. A much wider trade deficit than expected was thought to have accelerated the dollar’s descent.

US Dollar: 1987

http://seekingalpha.com/article/265995-can-dollar-weakness-mean-equity-weakness?source=yahoo

Over the long term, all things being equal, it is logically sound to conclude that a weakening dollar must cause assets priced in dollars to rise. However, in the short term, markets are not always logical and can anticipate the next move by world bankers. In 1987, the U.S. dollar lost 10% in roughly three months. During the same time span, the equity markets lost close to 30%. Such a move contradicts today’s accepted wisdom.

Though the Federal Reserve has approached its dollar policy with the same restraint as Charlie Sheen at Happy Hour, we should avoid approaching every scenario with broad generalizations, regardless of one’s long term view on the dollar. In the financial markets, nothing goes in a straight line, and correlations tend to break down if certain asset classes move too violently.

US Dollar: Last Twelve Months

http://seekingalpha.com/article/265995-can-dollar-weakness-mean-equity-weakness?source=yahoo

While the last twelve months have been unfavorable for the dollar, and while assets have benefited from the Federal Reserve’s currency abuse, correlations do seem to be diverging. Over the past year, the dollar is down roughly 8% and the S&P is up about 9%. But the market has begun reacting more coolly towards a weakening dollar as oil prices have accelerated higher. In fact, in the past two months, the dollar is down 4.25%, and the S&P 500 is down 1%. In the last two weeks, the dollar is down 1.45% and the S&P 500 is down about 1.1%. These moves are in stark contrast to the performance of the past year, so the trend is clearly weakening.

I might worry that if the dollar begins a sharp move downward, the Fed may be forced to approach dollar policy with greater restraint, which could instigate a strong market reaction.

I am fairly agnostic on the dollar’s next move, and I am unsure how that next move will correlate with asset prices. Furthermore, I do not intend to predict an imminent market crash. I simply revisit this history lesson to emphasize a few broader points:

Long term correlations do not necessarily equate to the same correlation in the short term.
In the short term, crashing asset prices can - and often have - occurred alongside a crashing currency. (This occurred in Europe last year.)
Investor sentiment against the dollar is heavily skewed, which should make market observers nervous.
The Fed may desire a weaker currency, but it is in their best interest to keep the decline orderly. If a dollar decline were to become chaotic, it would force a Fed reaction that could be unfriendly to the market.

Extreme dollar bears (and asset bulls) should be cautious. The markets do not move in straight lines, and the only certainty in volatile markets is uncertainty. A handy life jacket is worthwhile if the boat flips.’

Chinese Stocks Send Warning Signals

Federal Reserve Press Release April 27, 2011 Federal Reserve The economic recovery is proceeding at a moderate pace and overall conditions in the labor market are improving gradually.

Fed Says Recovery is ‘Moderate’; Bond Buying to End in June Bloomberg | Federal Reserve policy makers said the economy is recovering at a “moderate pace” and a pickup in inflation is likely to be temporary.

20 Questions for Ben Bernanke Zero Hedge | The Fed is expected to continue the QE2 Lite mandate.

Bernanke seen indicating no haste to tighten Fed policy Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday will likely use his first-ever news conference on monetary policy to hammer home the case for a patient approach to withdrawing the central bank’s extensive support for theU.S. economy.

What Is Outsourcing? Once upon a time in America, virtually anyone with a high school education and the willingness to work hard could get a good job. Fifty years ago a “good job” would enable someone to own a home, buy a car, take a couple of vacations a year and retire with a decent pension. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.

ECONOMIC CRISIS ARCHIVE

National / World

Obama Is Right, There Are More Important Issues Than His Birth Certificate Barack Obama’s assertion today that there are more important things to worry about than the place of his birth is technically accurate. As we have documented since the very beginning of his presidential campaign, the birther issue is, in the main, a distraction, a smokescreen designed to whip up a frenzy that has effectively concealed a much bigger story, the history of the CIA creation Barry Soetoro.

VIDEO: Obama slams birthplace claims as ‘silliness’ In an extraordinary and surreal live television appearance, President Barack Obama on Wednesday slammed conspiracy theories that he was not American-born as carnival-style silliness.

Obama Birth Certificate “Raises As Many Questions As It Answers” Despite some political commentators insisting that the White House release of what it claims to be Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate represents the end of the “crazy birther fringe” movement, those who most fiercely pushed doubts surrounding the president’s eligibility are not convinced.

White House Releases Obama Birth Certificate; Fox News Says Case Closed White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said today the decision was made to release the full document in response to increased attention on the issue, including a political stunt by Donald Trump, who claims he may challenge Obama in 2012 for the presidency.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America title in 2003, Susie Castillo, said a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina during an intrusive pat-down.

Congressional Study: Largest Banks Likely Profited By Borrowing From Federal Reserve, Lending To Federal Government A newly-released study from the Congressional Research Service bolsters claims that the nation’s largest banks profited off the Federal Reserve’s financial crisis-era programs by borrowing cash for next to nothing, then lending it back to the federal government at substantially higher rates.

Ex-CIA chief: Kadhafi was good partner The former chief of the CIA on Tuesday praised Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s past cooperation and said his downfall could complicate US interests

Telegraph Blasts Alex Jones on Royal Wedding Telegraph | Americans are obsessed with the royal wedding – although not always in the way that you might expect.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA Kurt Nimmo | Castillo subjected to groping after she refused to enter naked body scanner at airport in Dallas, Texas.

Obama Birth Certificate “Raises As Many Questions As It Answers” Paul Joseph Watson | If you thought the birther controversy was finished, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Obama Produces Purported Long Form Birth Certificate Kurt Nimmo | White House releases purported certificate as political pressure mounts to come clean on citizenship.

Drudgereport: SPOOK SHUFFLE: PETRAEUS TO CIA, PANETTA TO PENTAGON (americans-just a bunch of spooks!)...

Afghan officer fires on U.S. troops, kills 9 [american war criminals winning hearts and minds]...

BERNANKE: Here comes the inflation...
GOLD RECORD -- AGAIN...

Banks Warn Obama on Soaring Debt Problems...

Gasoline futures jump 6 cents in one day...

TRUMP TO GIBBS: YOU'RE 'A LOSER' [‘Another trumped-up case of the pot calling the kettle black’]... TRUMP: Obama Not Worthy of Ivy Leagues... [ Talk about the pot calling the kettle black … trump’s b.s., low grade (penn) ivy league (courtesy of papa mobster trump who ‘twisted his arm to go’ so people would take him ‘seriously’ – papa mobster trump would pound the undistinguished academically / athletically, Donald with the mantra, ‘you’re a killer, you’re a king’ in film noir melodramatic fashion which proved too much for the more balanced and ‘chosen / favored’ elder brother trump who committed suicide. The old man also required trump to go to prep / military / boarding school where according to a classmate, Ted Levine, trump used to wet / pee in his bed. ) vegetable garden in the same manner as dumbya bush … mobster trump and people like trump are part of the problem (total b*** s***, fraud, etc., as in his home turf, mob-infested sinkholes, jersey / new york), not the solution. Indeed, trump is an interesting mental case in that he evolved from narcissist (those inflated grandiose moods coupled with feelings of inferiority – he loved to obsessively read those hitler speeches for inspiration and to pump himself up according to Ivana Trump) to severe case of antisocial personality disorder [ predatory disregard for and violation of the rights of others – hence, those sophomoric soundbite solutions to complex problems as, ie., taking oil fields(Libya), 25% tariff on Chinese (actually including american goods made in China), drug money laundering in his casinos, bribery, etc. http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]

Is the Market Crazy? [ Short answer: Yes! Fraudulently, criminally insane type crazy! ]

One macro factor stands out among the rest: the rapidly weakening US dollar leading up to Black Monday.

US Dollar: 1987

http://seekingalpha.com/article/265995-can-dollar-weakness-mean-equity-weakness?source=yahoo

Long term correlations do not necessarily equate to the same correlation in the short term.
In the short term, crashing asset prices can - and often have - occurred alongside a crashing currency. (This occurred in Europe last year.)
Investor sentiment against the dollar is heavily skewed, which should make market observers nervous.
The Fed may desire a weaker currency, but it is in their best interest to keep the decline orderly. If a dollar decline were to become chaotic, it would force a Fed reaction that could be unfriendly to the market.

Bernanke prepares to make history (Washington Post) [ He already has! $6 gas acomin’, $1,508+ gold, $46+ silver, other commodities at record levels, hyperinflation as predicted well on the way from over-printing of fiat paper currency by fed as predicted, etc., Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar 'Despite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years, equity valuations are the 2nd largest bubble in U.S. history... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued according to this valuation metric. The only time the markets have been more overvalued was a few brief months in 1929 and the tech bubble

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009.

· The billions saved through “free loading” by homeowners who have defaulted on their mortgages yet maintained their residence, thus living without a mortgage payment.

· The artificially suppressed interest rates...

24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline and it is getting really hard to deny it. Over the past year I have included literally thousands of depressing statistics in my articles about the U.S. economy. The Economic Collapse April 23, 2011 The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline and it is getting really hard to deny it. Over the past year I have included literally thousands of depressing statistics in my articles about the U.S. economy… the U.S. economy is in deep decline and is dying a little bit more every single day…

Treasury quietly plans for debt showdown (Washington Post) As White House warns of catastrophe if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling, Geithner is working behind the scenes to juggle the books and conserve cash. [ Quietly? Hardly. It’s probably the most trumpeted quiet plan in the history of this now defacto bankrupt nation. Davis ‘… This is how we pay off our current debts and I think bondholders are simply happy to get anything out of a country that admits it owes $15Tn (1/4 of global GDP) but probably owes closer to $60Tn (entire global GDP) in the form of unfunded liabilities. The funniest thing about this (and you have to laugh) is to see Conservative pundits get on TV and talk about how we need to cut $100Bn worth of discretionary spending to "fix" this (while continuing to spend $1Tn on the military and $1Tn on tax cuts for the top 1% each year). There is no fixing this and even a Republican said you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. THIS HOUSE OF CARDS IS TEETERING FOLKS – PLEASE BE CAREFUL OUT THERE! ‘ … Suckers’ rally to keep suckers suckered: Philadelphia Fed Depresses Economists Durden ‘On Thursday April 21, 2011, 1:32 pm EDT And here comes the first indicator that Q2 GDP is about to be mass revised by everyone, courtesy of Japan, and ongoing inflation pressures: the Philadelphia Fed collapsed from a revised 43.4 (a 27 year high) to 18.5, the lowest since November 2010… This is an especially great opportunity to sell / take profits while you still can since there's much worse to come!]

America Is a Failed State Because It Won’t Prosecute Financial Crime Washington’s Blog.. the grim economic reality [ http://albertpeia.com/grimreality.htm ]. Selling In May Is Very Good Advice This Year Harding / April Is a Good Time to Sell Adler Equity Valuations Are Forming the Second Biggest Bubble in U.S. History Kaspar 'Despite the terrible economic performance of the past ten years, equity valuations are the 2nd largest bubble in U.S. history... According to Yale University’s Dr. Robert Shiller, the market is now 41% overvalued according to this valuation metric. The only time the markets have been more overvalued was a few brief months in 1929 and the tech bubble

... growth in earnings have been artificially manufactured...

· The change in accounting rules for the financial sector by FASB has generated massive “false” account profits beginning in 2009.

· The billions saved through “free loading” by homeowners who have defaulted on their mortgages yet maintained their residence, thus living without a mortgage payment.

· The artificially suppressed interest rates...

Chinese Stocks Send Warning Signals

Federal Reserve Press Release April 27, 2011 Federal Reserve The economic recovery is proceeding at a moderate pace and overall conditions in the labor market are improving gradually.

20 Questions for Ben Bernanke Zero Hedge | The Fed is expected to continue the QE2 Lite mandate.

Bernanke seen indicating no haste to tighten Fed policy Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday will likely use his first-ever news conference on monetary policy to hammer home the case for a patient approach to withdrawing the central bank’s extensive support for theU.S. economy.

What Is Outsourcing? Once upon a time in America, virtually anyone with a high school education and the willingness to work hard could get a good job. Fifty years ago a “good job” would enable someone to own a home, buy a car, take a couple of vacations a year and retire with a decent pension. Unfortunately, those days are long gone.

ECONOMIC CRISIS ARCHIVE

National / World

Obama Is Right, There Are More Important Issues Than His Birth Certificate Barack Obama’s assertion today that there are more important things to worry about than the place of his birth is technically accurate. As we have documented since the very beginning of his presidential campaign, the birther issue is, in the main, a distraction, a smokescreen designed to whip up a frenzy that has effectively concealed a much bigger story, the history of the CIA creation Barry Soetoro.

VIDEO: Obama slams birthplace claims as ‘silliness’ In an extraordinary and surreal live television appearance, President Barack Obama on Wednesday slammed conspiracy theories that he was not American-born as carnival-style silliness.

Obama Birth Certificate “Raises As Many Questions As It Answers” Despite some political commentators insisting that the White House release of what it claims to be Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate represents the end of the “crazy birther fringe” movement, those who most fiercely pushed doubts surrounding the president’s eligibility are not convinced.

White House Releases Obama Birth Certificate; Fox News Says Case Closed White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said today the decision was made to release the full document in response to increased attention on the issue, including a political stunt by Donald Trump, who claims he may challenge Obama in 2012 for the presidency.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America title in 2003, Susie Castillo, said a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina during an intrusive pat-down.

Congressional Study: Largest Banks Likely Profited By Borrowing From Federal Reserve, Lending To Federal Government A newly-released study from the Congressional Research Service bolsters claims that the nation’s largest banks profited off the Federal Reserve’s financial crisis-era programs by borrowing cash for next to nothing, then lending it back to the federal government at substantially higher rates.

Top Mexican Drug Lord: I Trafficked Cocaine For The U.S. Government The “logistical coordinator” for a top Mexican drug-trafficking gang that was responsible for purchasing the CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 has told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he has been working as a U.S. government asset for years.

Ex-CIA chief: Kadhafi was good partner The former chief of the CIA on Tuesday praised Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s past cooperation and said his downfall could complicate US interests

Telegraph Blasts Alex Jones on Royal Wedding Telegraph | Americans are obsessed with the royal wedding – although not always in the way that you might expect.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA Kurt Nimmo | Castillo subjected to groping after she refused to enter naked body scanner at airport in Dallas, Texas.

Obama Birth Certificate “Raises As Many Questions As It Answers” Paul Joseph Watson | If you thought the birther controversy was finished, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Obama Produces Purported Long Form Birth Certificate Kurt Nimmo | White House releases purported certificate as political pressure mounts to come clean on citizenship.

Drudgereport: SPOOK SHUFFLE: PETRAEUS TO CIA, PANETTA TO PENTAGON (americans-just a bunch of spooks!)...

Afghan officer fires on U.S. troops, kills 9 [american war criminals winning hearts and minds]...

BERNANKE: Here comes the inflation...
GOLD RECORD -- AGAIN...

Banks Warn Obama on Soaring Debt Problems...

Gasoline futures jump 6 cents in one day...

#1 On Monday, S&P altered its outlook on U.S. government debt from “stable” to “negative” ..at the rest of the world is losing faith in the U.S. dollar and in U.S. Treasuries.

#2 China has announced reducing their holdings of U.S. dollar

#3 .. “panic dollar selling is setting in” and U.S. dollar in for a huge decline.

#4 The biggest bond fund in the world, PIMCO, is now shorting U.S. government bonds.

#5 Bad economy is causing “ghost towns” to appear all across the U.S..

#6 There are now about 7.25 million less jobs in America than when the recession began back in 2007.

#7 The average American family is having a really tough time - Only 45.4% of Americans had a job during 2010. .

#8 Only 66.8% of American men had a job last year- lowest level ever ..

#9 Avg CEO made 343 times more money than the average American

#10 Gas prices five dollars per gallon at gas stations.. $6 gas soon

#11 .. 12 months the average price of gasoline in the US has gone up by about 30%.

#12 Due to rising fuel prices, American Airlines lost a staggering $436 million during first qtr 2011.

#13 U.S. households now receiving more from the US gov’t than they are paying to the government in taxes.

#14 1 of 4 dollars that the U.S. govt borrows goes to pay the interest on the national debt.

#15 Total home mortgage debt in the United States is now about 5 times larger than it was just 20 years ago.

#16 Total credit card debt in u.s. more than 8 times larger than 30 yrs ago.

#17 Avg household debt in the United States has now reached a level of 136% of avg household income. In China, avg household debt is only 17% of avg household income.

#18 Avg American spends approximately 23 percent .. on food and gas.

#19 .. 74 percent of u.s. said that they planned to slow down their spending

#20 59 percent u.s. receive money from the govt ..

#21 avg length of unemployment in the U.S. is now an all-time record 39 weeks.

#22 u.s. random acts of violence”…

#23 Americans are popping the gold teeth right out of their mouths / selling them to pawn shops.

#24 ..u.s. people gobbling up larger and larger amounts of antidepressants / other drugs. ..’ ]

The president, lost in thought (Washington Post) In politics, deep and complex thinkers such as Obama can seem adrift. [ How ‘bout just lost! Wobama apologist Mr. Milbank is at it again;viz., new ways to explain away wobama’s reflection at trying to remember what he previously said so as not to appear as to have been as disingenuous as you’d expect a common liar to be. Yet, I believe Mr. Milbank misreads the current signs which in fact reflect for ‘wobama the b’ (for b* s*) a current loss beyond thought which has cast him into a ‘funk’: Drudgereport: `TELEPROMPTER INVENTOR DIES... (Wobama ‘goes in mourning … day of silence declared’)`

Attorney General Holder defends his tenure (Washington Post) [ Defending the indefensible! Yes … there is no defending this ag … He should step down, forced to resign … Obama faces fundraising test in California (Washington Post) [ Test? You mean intelligence test for those Californians? A cliché, aphorism is apposite: ‘Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me’. Now frauds on wall street got value for their bribes; viz., no prosecution of their continuing nation-destroying frauds, yet cleaning up the frauds with prosecutions was the presumption upon which their support was predicated , at least in part. Certainly Hollywood spoke with their academy award for ‘Inside Job’ . Roche 'The worst part of it ...Obama, who vowed change, has done almost nothing to fix any of it and in fact continues most of the policies that helped get us here in the first place’ ‘INSIDE JOB’ Ferguson wins Oscar for Documentary on the unprosecuted massive extant fraud in the (many) TRILLIONS by the frauds on wall street ( and declares with oscar in hand that not one high level wall street exec has been prosecuted … despite ‘earning’ billiions from the fraud ), the commentator / experts recommend getting rid of the corrupt eric holder ( what do holder and wobama have in common … wall street money? … a proclivity for jive-talking / b* s* ?...all/some of the above … or is it something else ... . UPDATE: MORE CLAIMS OF RACE BIAS AT JUSTICE... `‘`In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims ' Cases against Wall Street lag despite Holder’s vows to target financial fraud WP | Obama has promised to hold Wall Street accountable for the meltdown. ]

]

Trump’s donations favor Democrats (Washington Post) [ Why the surprise? In addition to being a bribester, mobster, trump’s a total fraudster / mental case who stands for absolutely nothing more than expedient soundbites! Drudgereport: TRUMP: Obama Not Worthy of Ivy Leagues... [ Talk about the pot calling the kettle black … trump’s b.s., low grade (penn) ivy league (courtesy of papa mobster trump who ‘twisted his arm to go’ so people would take him ‘seriously’ – papa mobster trump would pound the undistinguished academically / athletically donald with the mantra, ‘you’re a killer, you’re a king’ in film noir melodramatic fashion which proved too much for the more balanced and ‘chosen / favored’ elder brother trump who committed suicide. The old man also required trump to go to prep / military / boarding school where according to a classmate, Ted Levine, trump used to wet / pee in his bed. ) vegetable garden in the same manner as dumbya bush … mobster trump and people like trump are part of the problem (total b*** s***, fraud, etc., as in his home turf, mob-infested sinkholes, jersey / new york), not the solution. Indeed, trump is an interesting mental case in that he evolved from narcissist (those inflated grandiose moods coupled with feelings of inferiority – he loved to obsessively read those hitler speeches for inspiration and to pump himself up according to Ivana Trump) to severe case of antisocial personality disorder [ predatory disregard for and violation of the rights of others – hence, those sophomoric soundbite solutions to complex problems as, ie., taking oil fields(Libya), 25% tariff on Chinese (actually including american goods made in China) goods, drug money laundering in his casinos, bribery, etc. http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/ricosummarytoFBIunderpenaltyofperjury.pdf http://www.albertpeia.com/112208opocoan/PeiavCoanetals.htm ]

In a rational nation that wasn’t in decline as pervasively corrupt, defacto bankrupt america, trump and sister Maryanne would both be in prison.

`'Terrible student,' not good enough for Harvard...` Biden daughter trashes Trump...
Bill Cosby: 'He's full of it!'...
Trump Takes On NYT, Gail Collins...
Admires her for surviving 'so long with so little talent'...
NBCWSJ POLL SHOCK: TRUMP #2 GOP [ NBC where t_rump has his Jerry Springer derivative shock-jock show and sinkhole new york's fraud street journal … poll? … Don't make me laugh … Lawrence O'Donnell insists parent company NBC consider firing Donald Trump DC Milbank: Donald trumps CPAC | Gibbs gone (WP) [ Trump’s a loser, dressed up and propped up by and to shill for a declining, fallen nation in the most corrupt regions (ie., new york, jersey, etc.) of the country (every fallen nation has such)… Poll: 31% of Republicans, say Trump would make a “poor” or “terrible” president

Saturday, April 30, 2011

April 29, 2011 Posts

Business / Economic / Financial

24 Signs Of Economic Decline In America ‘The United States is in the middle of a devastating long-term economic decline’ ] States face shortfall for retirees]

Gallup Poll Shows that More Americans Believe the U.S. is in a Depression than is Growing … Are They Right? [ Yes! ]Consumer confidence is, well … in somewhat of a depression.

People are leaving California city because of poor economy There is much talk in Washington, D.C. that the economic recovery is underway, but in some parts of the America, like in Riverside, Ca., the economy continues to take a downward spiral.

You're a Neanderthal: Genes say yes — a little bit (AP) Neanderthals and people interbred, fossil analysis finds For more info on man’s humble beginnings, see here http://www.albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm [

FOUND: MISSING LINK BETWEEN APES AND MAN.... These stories, and the many like it, are old news and I subscribe to the more studied view that there is no “missing link” per se and in my view they are distinctions without significant differences.

Trifecta of Mass Murder Sets Stage for Attack on Syria Kurt Nimmo | John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham demand Obama call for resignation of Syrian leader.

Pop Culture Icon Rihanna Put Through TSA Naked Body Scanner In Show Of Power Steve Watson | Random scans? Not when there’s an attractive megastar in the security line.

Globalists Plan to Starve Libyan People to Death Kurt Nimmo | Innocents always suffer when their leaders stand up to the financial elite.

Obama Working “Under The Radar” To Sneak Attack Second Amendment Paul Joseph Watson | Administration cited gun smuggling from U.S. to Mexico as reason to chill gun rights, despite fact federal government program deliberately delivered firearms to Mexican drug lords.

Secret Silver Buying by Russian Billionaire, Chinese Traders, and People’s Bank of China to Lead to Comex Silver Default? A COMEX default would have massive ramifications for precious metals markets, for the wider commodity markets, for the dollar, fiat currencies and our modern financial system.

Charlie Veitch Still In Police Custody, Taken To London A spokesman from Cambridgeshire police said: “We arrested a 30-year-old man yesterday on behalf of Met Police. He was firstly taken to Parkside police station but the Met have since taken him down to London.”

Obama’s Birth Certificate: Not the Issue Like it or not, your real government consists of unelected bankers and corporate special interests.

Losing Faith (In The U.S. Economy) Are the American people losing faith in the U.S. economy? The statistics that you are about to read might surprise you.

Gallup Poll Shows that More Americans Believe the U.S. is in a Depression than is Growing … Are They Right? [Yes!] Consumer confidence is, well … in somewhat of a depression.

PROOF!!! Obama Birth Certificate Fraud

You're a Neanderthal: Genes say yes — a little bit (AP) Neanderthals and people interbred, fossil analysis finds For more info on man’s humble beginnings, see here http://www.albertpeia.com/anthroindex1.htm [

FOUND: MISSING LINK BETWEEN APES AND MAN.... These stories, and the many like it, are old news and I subscribe to the more studied view that there is no “missing link” per se and in my view they are distinctions without significant differences.

Q1 GDP Prints At 1.8% Misses Consensus OF 2.0%, Plunges From 3.1% In Q4, Initial Claims Surge Nobody could have predicted the economic devastation (even as inflation surges). Nobody. And certain not the wise oracles at the Federal Reserve.

Relentless Dollar Pummeling Continues At the current rate of collapse, in a few more days the dollar will take out all time lows. Currently holding at 73, after hitting 72.8 overnight, the DXY appears set to test the last support from when the dollar carry trade was all the rage again back in 2008.

Has the Fed Decided to Fight Inflation Instead of Unemployment? The Fed has purposefully been encouraging banks to deposit their excess reserves at the Fed (for a profit), rather than loan them out to Main Street.

Panic selling of the U.S. dollar now underway as debt system implodes To most Americans it’s unthinkable that the U.S. dollar could someday be relegated to second-class status as a currency, but what they may not realize is that the transition is already underway.

Charlie Veitch Arrested In Pre-Crime Raid Prior to Royal Wedding Paul Joseph Watson | In a You Tube video posted earlier this week, Veitch warned that he was under surveillance and that he was being followed around London.

Digital Artifacts Prove Obama Birth Certificate Altered Kurt Nimmo | Artifacts reveal document was manipulated by image editing software.

Is Birther Circus A White House Political Ploy? Paul Joseph Watson | While the nation is distracted by another partisan political football, the machine behind Obama rolls onwards.

Rand Paul Demands To See “Original Long Form Certificate” Of Trump’s Republican Credentials Steve Watson | Senator draws on farce of birther distraction to make a very serious point.

New Obama Birth Certificate is a Forgery Kurt Nimmo | Our investigation of the purported Obama birth certificate released by Hawaiian authorities today reveals the document is a shoddily contrived hoax.

Bernanke seen indicating no haste to tighten Fed policy Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday will likely use his first-ever news conference on monetary policy to hammer home the case for a patient approach to withdrawing the central bank’s extensive support for theU.S. economy.

VIDEO: Obama slams birthplace claims as ‘silliness’ In an extraordinary and surreal live television appearance, President Barack Obama on Wednesday slammed conspiracy theories that he was not American-born as carnival-style silliness.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America title in 2003, Susie Castillo, said a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina during an intrusive pat-down.

Ex-CIA chief: Kadhafi was good partner The former chief of the CIA on Tuesday praised Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s past cooperation and said his downfall could complicate US interests

Telegraph Blasts Alex Jones on Royal Wedding Telegraph | Americans are obsessed with the royal wedding – although not always in the way that you might expect.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA Kurt Nimmo | Castillo subjected to groping after she refused to enter naked body scanner at airport in Dallas, Texas.

Obama Birth Certificate “Raises As Many Questions As It Answers” Paul Joseph Watson | If you thought the birther controversy was finished, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Obama Produces Purported Long Form Birth Certificate Kurt Nimmo | White House releases purported certificate as political pressure mounts to come clean on citizenship.

Bernanke seen indicating no haste to tighten Fed policy Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday will likely use his first-ever news conference on monetary policy to hammer home the case for a patient approach to withdrawing the central bank’s extensive support for theU.S. economy.

VIDEO: Obama slams birthplace claims as ‘silliness’ In an extraordinary and surreal live television appearance, President Barack Obama on Wednesday slammed conspiracy theories that he was not American-born as carnival-style silliness.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA In the video below, the former beauty queen who held the Miss America title in 2003, Susie Castillo, said a TSA “screener” fondled her vagina during an intrusive pat-down.

Ex-CIA chief: Kadhafi was good partner The former chief of the CIA on Tuesday praised Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s past cooperation and said his downfall could complicate US interests

Telegraph Blasts Alex Jones on Royal Wedding Telegraph | Americans are obsessed with the royal wedding – although not always in the way that you might expect.

Miss America Sexually Molested by TSA Kurt Nimmo | Castillo subjected to groping after she refused to enter naked body scanner at airport in Dallas, Texas.

Obama Birth Certificate “Raises As Many Questions As It Answers” Paul Joseph Watson | If you thought the birther controversy was finished, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

Obama Produces Purported Long Form Birth Certificate Kurt Nimmo | White House releases purported certificate as political pressure mounts to come clean on citizenship.

FOUND: MISSING LINK BETWEEN APES AND MAN.... `These stories, and the many like it, are old news and I subscribe to the more studied view that there is no “missing link” per se and in my view they are distinctions without significant differences.`

FOUND: MISSING LINK BETWEEN APES AND MAN.... `These stories, and the many like it, are old news and I subscribe to the more studied view that there is no “missing link” per se and in my view they are distinctions without significant differences.`